I don’t know if it’s just me, but home or away doesn’t work in the bridge. Two Apple phones and both given permission to determine location. But when I leave, it won’t be passed on to Homey Bridge. I can’t download the Présence app so I’m quite disappointed in this device. Does anyone have a soluti…

Like Sapperdeflap wrote, it happens to work fine here too, using Android 10 phones, Samsung S9 to be precise. My Pro & Cloud Homey’s report my presence almost simultaneously and accurate.

In the past 3 years it has never worked for me with Android (samsung phones). Tried every setting. Its kind off close nowadays but still too slow, im already inside before it detects me.

Did you point your location manually on the map. If auto-detect is enabled it’s not working very well… [Screenshot_20211219-230304_Homey]

Family have four iPhones and Beta/Bridge. It worked perfectly while on IOS 14. Since we upgraded ti IOS 15 the app needs to be running in the background on iPhones (might be that you also have to disable private ip adress).

Hi, I think that the Homey app does not “boot” when it should. I have family of 5 iPhones and came to conclusion that in some situations you need to open Homey app on your phone… so homey should add some detection to recover automatically. Seems that presence gets confused when your battery dies or…

From another thread: [image] Homey presence issue FW 7.xxx Apps Today I got an answer from Athom regarding the Home/Away issue when using the Homey App on a iPhone with iOS15 or later. Athom is aware of this issue and created a support ticket at Apple. The problem prese…

I had same problem, but i’m using now the locative-app in combination with webhooks and that works quite wel. No problems with seeing my wife coming home at a distance of 200 mtr. It goes by GPS.

Do you happen to know anything similar to ‘locative’ for android? It’s just what I need but it’s only for iOS unfortunately.

[image] Location and Presence (Owntracks) - HowTo Apps Location and Presence for Homey (formally Owntracks client) With this app you can enhance your Homey with presence detection based on geofences. This app is based on the Owntracks specification and available apps for…

So I guess Macrodroid is my only way to go if I only have Bridge?

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